9 Worst Food Additives You Need to Stop Eating Now

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

This additive is often found diet beverages, canned soup, packaged sausages and frankfurters, salad dressing, beef stew, instant soups, and some packaged vegetarian foods.

4- Sodium Nitrate and Sodium Nitrite

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These sodium additives are mainly used as food colorants and to prolong the shelf life of meats, such as sausages, bacon, and hot dogs.

The bad news is that when they mix with your stomach acids, they form nitrosamines, which are potent cancer-causing cells linked to bladder, esophageal, brain, stomach, and oral cancers!

Common side effects can include nausea, vomiting, headaches, and dizziness.
You should better opt for meats that are additive-free.

5- BHA (Butylated Hydroxyanisole) and BHT (Butylated Hydroxytoluene)

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Antioxidants are known to be highly beneficial, right? Wrong, at least not in this case.
BHA and BHT are antioxidant preservatives used in chewing gum, potato chips, and cereals to prevent them from going rotten.

Although the Department of Health and Human Services had announced them as known carcinogens, the FDA still allows them for some mysterious reasons.

BHA and BHT have extremely negative effects on appetite and sleep and were linked to behavioral problems, hair loss, kidney and liver damage, and cancer.

6- Propyl Gallate

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This is another antioxidant preservative that manufacturers use to keep oils and fats from spoiling and is frequently used in combination with BHA and BHT.

Propyl Gallate has a bad reputation that is might cause cancer even though there’s no strong evidence to support this statement.

You should stay away from this additive in the chicken soup base, chewing gum, meat products, potato sticks, vegetable oil, and also cosmetic products.

7- Potassium Bromate

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Potassium bromate is used in bread and rolls to boost their volume and create a good crumb structure. It has been inhibited by all industrialized country except for the United States and Japan.

In most cases, this additive breaks down in your body into inert bromide but the dangerous thing is when some leftover bromated sticks around, as it has been proven to cause cancer in lab animals.